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The sinking of El Faro: Sailors take warning…of disaster capitalism
October 12, 2022The backdrop is a sustained attack on mariners and their working conditions.
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Ronald Reagan rehabilitation fails to see how his politics gave us Trump
September 29, 2022As Donald Trump continues to helm the Republican Party toward fascism, Ronald Reagan is getting a break, sort of, from some on the left.
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Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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Nashville’s Interstate 65 becomes a billboard gallery of ancient Indigenous history
September 19, 2022The installation is informing the public about the magnificence of ancient Indigenous cultures in the Nashville area that were all part and parcel of the Mississippian civilizations.
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Can the Taiwan question ever be peacefully resolved?
September 15, 2022The overwhelming desire among common people on both sides is for eventual peaceful reunification. But separatists in Taiwan and U.S. imperialism stand in the way.
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